The Kicker
The Kicker is a podcast on the media and the world today. It comes out twice a month, hosted by Josh Hersh and produced by Amanda Darrach for the Columbia Journalism Review. It is available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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Episodes (654)
Emily Bell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s press ban & Jack Dorsey’s press tour
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Were all the free press editorials worth it?
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Perils of the internet, from Alex Jones’s ban to Sarah Jeong’s tweets
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Facebook sets its own narrative. Plus, press hatred flares at Trump rallies
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The local news death spiral. Plus, the Cohen–Trump tapes.
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A new era for the press after Helsinki?
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Breaking down coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory
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How media pressure forced Trump’s hand on border policy
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Platforms and publishers
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Let’s talk about class and journalism
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Taking the buyout
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Can the marriage between Facebook and journalism be saved?
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A unified campaign against Alden Global Capital
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Rukmini Callimachi on covering ISIS
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A Tale of Two Tariffs
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The Zuckerberg Chronicles
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CNN’s Nima Elbagir on her investigation into Libya's slave trade
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Is journalism a form of activism?
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Paul Ford on the intersection of blockchain and journalism
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Kim Masters on #MeToo coverage; Susan Orlean on finding stories
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A new generation of native voices
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The Facebook Armageddon
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Women in the workplace
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Threats to journalism
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The Twitter bot economy
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Slate’s ‘pivot to words’
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Untangling the Facebook mess
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Reddit, Michael Wolff, and “media men” list
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The year in journalism
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The popularity of "Cat Person"
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Jezebel’s new EIC on feminist reporting after Weinstein
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A dive into the swamp with Politico Playbook’s Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman
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Anti-establishment media in the Trump era
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Turning the lens on whiteness when covering race
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Jelani Cobb on one year of Trump
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The evolution of audio, Facebook’s political reckoning, and civil war at the WSJ
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Does Weinstein represent a sea change or just a moment?
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From climate change to Facebook
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Harvey Weinstein and the media's complicated relationship
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Covering the White House with Glenn Thrush & Ben Jacobs
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Fake news in a small town
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Covering race and racism after Charlottesville
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Combat reporting from the field to the home front
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Preparing for the worst when covering disasters
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Podcast: Hurricane Harvey
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The white supremacy beat
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The media responds to Charlottesville
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Podcast: Venezuela in crisis
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Podcast: Tabloids in the age of Trump
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The media is bad at covering drugs
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